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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Allen Weinstein; Frank Otto Gatell; David Sarasohn |
ISBN: | 0195024702 9780195024708 |
OCLC Number: | 3932880 |
Description: | ix, 317 pages ; 21 cm |
Contents: | Modern tensions and the origins of American slavery / Winthrop D. Jordan -- The evolution of slavery in British America and Latin America : a comparison / David Brion Davis -- Southern Negro slavery : a benign view / Ulrich B. Phillips -- Southern Negro slavery : "To make them stand in fear" / Kenneth M. Stampp -- The Negro slave in New York / Edgar J. McManus -- Slavery in microcosm : Burke County, North Carolina / Edward W. Phifer -- Slavery in the Southern cities / Richard C. Wade -- The slave economies of Cuba and Virginia : a comparison / Herbert S. Klein -- Slavery and the revolutionary generation / Robert McColley -- Slavery and the nullification crisis / William W. Freehling -- The militant South / John Hope Franklin -- The travail of slavery / Charles Grier Sellers Jr. -- Patterns of slavery in the Americas / David Brion Davis -- Historian and Southern Negro slavery / Kenneth M. Stampp -- Slavery and Negro personality / Stanley M. Elkins -- The profitability of slavery / Harold D. Woodman -- The slave South : an interpretation / Eugene D. Genovese -- Race relations in OldSouth industries / Robert Starobin -- Interpretations of slavery : the slave status in the Americas / Arnold A. Sio -- On Stanley M. Elkins's Slavery, a problem in American institutional and intellectual life / Eugene D. Genovese -- On Eugene D. Genovese's The political economy of slavery / Stanley M. Elkins -- On David Brion Davis's The problem of slavery in Western culture / M.I. Finley. |
Responsibility: | edited by Allen Weinstein, Frank Otto Gatell, and David Sarasohn. |
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Abstract:
Incorporating significant and at times controversial literature on questions about the institution of slavery and the social and cultural response of the blacks to their enslavement, this collection reflects recent investigation, offering thirteen readings, eight of them new to this edition, from the most important and stimulating works.
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"Easily the best anthology on the historical literature of slavery."--Clayborne Carson, Stanford University"Excellent historical and sociological analyses of Black American slavery."--Richard T. Doi, Central Washington University"Easily the best anthology on the historical literature of slavery."--Clayborne Carson, Stanford University"Excellent historical and sociological analyses of Black American slavery."--Richard T. Doi, Central Washington University Read more...
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